Americans, unconsciously arrogant because we live in what is temporarily the most powerful nation on the planet... tend to think that we invented the world... We tend to think that the First Amendment is the only mechanism for the protection of free speech and the press and that other democracies, without it, must be deficient (rather than different).
"Orientations: The Press and Democracy in Time and Space" quoted in
The Press, edited by Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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